Trần Quyết Chiến

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Trần Quyết Chiến
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Personal details
birthday 3rd February 1984
place of birth Cà Mau
nationality VietnamVietnam
Achievements
Unless otherwise stated,
the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
Continental Championships:
1 ×
Other tournaments:
s. successes
World rankings
Highest WRL place: 3 (April 2019)
Current WRL location: 3

Tran Quyet Chien (Vietnamese: Trần Quyết Chiến) (born February 3, 1984 in Cà Mau , Vietnam ) is a Vietnamese three-cushion player .

Career

Tran says he was born into a poor family. His father is a civil servant, his mother a trader. They set up a pool table at home early on that people could play at for a fee. This is how he developed his love for colorful balls and billiards at a young age . In his poor home village, the pool table was an entertainment center for men. When the adults played pool, he learned by imitation. Unlike the English and Snooker dominated Thailand, Vietnam, by the former French colonial power, carom played. His nickname "Quyût Chiến" means something like "Determined to fight and to win"! His role model is the Belgian Frédéric Caudron , who is also his teacher and friend.

He played the first international tournaments in 2007, he won bronze at the World Cup, and then entered the stage as a professional player in 2010. At the three-cushion World Cup in 2015 , he made it to the round of 16, where he failed against Dutchman Dick Jaspers with 26:40. Tran is the first Vietnamese to win a World Cup. In the purely Vietnamese final, also a novelty, in May 2018 in front of a home crowd in Ho Chi Minh City , he was able to beat his compatriot Ngô Đinh Nai with 40:39. With this victory, he climbed into the top 12 in the world rankings for the first time , from previously 18th. At the LG Cup 2018 at the beginning of September, he defeated Caudron in the final with 40:39 and won his second international victory and the winner's bonus in the high-dosed tournament € 60,000, a sum that most of his compatriots have to work for 25 years. It was his third win in six games against the reigning world champion. His victory in the group stage against Eddy Merckx with 40:17 in 11 shots was sensational . At the first World Cup of the year in Porto, he and his compatriots were very unlucky, as none of the Vietnamese received a visa for purely organizational reasons and could not take part in the tournament. As Vietnamese, you could not apply for a visa for Portugal in Thailand, but Vietnam does not have a Portuguese embassy at this time.

On April 27, 2019, in front of a home crowd, he won the Asian championship against the young Korean Cho Myung-woo in Ho Chi Minh City , taking third place in the world rankings behind the leading Dick Jaspers and Frédéric Caudron .

Its sponsor and contract partner is Molinari Cues . The team also includes Torbjörn Blomdahl , Choi Sung-won , Heo Jung-han , Nikos Polychronopoulos and Hugo Patiño .

Private life

Tran lives with his wife and two daughters in the Bình Thạnh district in HCM City.

successes

Swell:

Web links

Commons : Trần Quyết Chiến  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography. Kozoom , accessed September 8, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c Cuiet Chiến: from poor child to world champion. Vietnam News, August 26, 2018, archived from the original on September 8, 2018 ; accessed on September 8, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Visa fiasco leads Vietnamese cueists to miss world tournament. Vietnam Art News, July 5, 2018, archived from the original on September 8, 2018 ; accessed on September 8, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Markus Schönhoff: Tran (VN) with Asian title new number 3 in the world. Kozoom, April 28, 2019, archived from the original on April 28, 2019 ; accessed on April 28, 2019 .
  5. ^ Team Molinari. Molinari Cues, accessed September 8, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Achievements. Kozoom, accessed September 8, 2018 .
Note: The surname of this Vietnamese name is Trần , in Western texts the spelling is often simplified Tran . According to Vietnamese custom, the person should be referred to by their first name Quyết Chiến - even in formal situations .
personal data
SURNAME Trần, Quyết Chiến
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tran, Quiet Chien; Tran, Quyet Chien
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Vietnamese three-cushion player
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd February 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Cà Mau , Vietnam